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arrest
- /əˈɹɛst/
- [əˈɹʷɛst]
Rhymes with -ɛst
Where it comes from
From Middle English arest (noun) and aresten (verb), from Old French areste (noun) and arester (“to stay, stop”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *arrestō, from Latin ad- (“to”) + restō (“to stop, remain behind, stay back”), from re- (“back”) + stō (“to stand”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”), equivalent to ad- + rest. Compare French arrêter (“to stop”).
noun arrests
- A check; a stop; an act or instance of arresting something.
- The condition of being stopped, standstill. cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest
- The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc. State police made a total of 15 drug-related arrests across the city.
- A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
- A device to physically arrest motion.
- The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
- Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise. The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., […] were sad arrests to his troubled spirit.
- A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse
verb arrests · arresting · arrested
- To stop the motion of (a person, animal, or body part). An vncouth paine torments my grieued ſoule, And death arreſts the organe of my voyce.
- To stay, remain. A white Starre[…]whiche to every mans sighte did lighte and arrest apon the Standard of Albry.
- To stop or slow (a process, course etc.). To try to arrest the spiral of violence, I contacted Chief Buthelezi to arrange a meeting.
- To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody. The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry.
- To catch the attention of. There is something about this picture—something bold and vigorous, which arrests the attention. I feel sure it would be highly popular.
- To undergo cardiac arrest. Realizing the mistake immediately from the outline of the RCA on the fluoroscope screen, he rapidly removed the catheter – just as his patient arrested.
